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I too was surprised by the announcement by Alban to end its 40 year run as the premier consulting organization with the myriad of opportunities it has offered to so many. Having received Congregations for many years as a valuable publication and attended Alban conference in Florida some years ago, I shall miss it.
re: SULAM. It was the USCJ before he was with Alban that brought Bob L to the program.He came first as an observer and paying participant. Only later did I add Bob to my faculty of SULAM. The contributions to SULAM came after Bob benefitted from SULAM. And more recently he was one of three people who have carried the SULAM flag to new and exciting dimensions.

Having retained Bob to work with a synagogue evaluating leadership change, I cannot join the encomimums to Alban’s work. Rather than working for the organization which retained him, Bob saw his mission as reinforcing the clergy, advising them in retaining their positions, and “scripting” their responses to lay leadership. Hopefully our experience was aberrational, but as a former consultant and having retained several leading consulting organizations, our six month experience was extraordinarily disappointing and costly, in more than dollars.

Our experience was that Alban was an attractive cover for a one man consulting business.

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